After Half a Century, Still Writing, Still Questing
Rick Lyman's New York Times interview (7 May 1998) from Mailer's Brooklyn Heights home, on The Time of Our Time; its chief theme is religion — 'I am searching for a notion of God that is alive to me.'
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“After Half a Century, Still Writing, Still Questing,” Rick Lyman’s New York Times interview (7 May 1998, Sec. E, pp. 1, 8), conducted at Mailer’s Brooklyn Heights home around The Time of Our Time. Its chief theme is religion — “For the last 50 years, my preoccupation has been religion… . I am searching for a notion of God that is alive to me” — alongside his plans for a Harlot’s Ghost sequel and the observation that John F. Kennedy “is as vivid to me as Bill Clinton.”
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